If I lived there, I'd be organizing the other residents to drive back and forth through the checkpoints as often as possible; give the BP folks something more to do and make a recording of each crossing.

This is why you should NEVER, EVER, split corporate shares 50/50. If a lawyer set up this S corp, IMNSHO they were, at best, lax in their advice (or more accurately negligent in their duty to the client).

Y'know, it's far more likely that a local TSA manager thought this would be a "good idea" and told United in SD, and nobody bothered to ask questions about it; it's usually some flunky that makes everyone look bad.

In most states, you must have a license to represent yourself a "professional engineer" (a term of art), abbreviated PE. This usually only applies to the licensed disciplines of civil, electrical, and mechanical (any others?). Call yourself a doctor, lawyer, dentist (or PE), and it's implied that you have that license. Everywhere, except apparently Oregon, the bare word "engineer" does not.

I can call myself a "software engineer" or "computer engineer" all I want, and if I operate a locomotive, even just "engineer".

Yep. I live less than 10 air miles from San Francisco and have the "options" of-- 2 providers over existing twisted pair (Sonic & ATT)1 provider over existing CATV cable (comcrap)2 fixed wireless (maybe, might be too far)1 satellite provider (Hughes, with huge latency)

Only one of the TP providers and maybe one of the fixed-wireless providers will give me static IPs, which I need (and please don't argue with me about that). AFAICT none of them will install "business" service into a residence.

The basic problem with all the arguments against net neutrality are that they conflate content and carriage. Consider that after AT&T Divestiture in the 1980s (and wireline voice traffic is regulated), the *content* industry blossomed. What made it work is that the telcos were -required- to carry everyone's traffic (and they made money off that).

By ignoring the permit process and then being sued for lack of license, CL may have been able to argue that the court doesn't and can't have personal jurisdiction over them. Unless CL has offices in Milwaukee, the city would have to find some other nexus to hang the action on, which would require something like identifying a person that has purchased the game while physically located within the city bounds; even that sounds tenuous.

I'll go out on a limb here- the vast majority of the people complaining were probably told "it's an ad.". Unless you read the caption, how can you tell? Even then, unless you know what "SHE" might refer to in context, how can you tell?

Advertising only works when the viewer actually knows what is being advertised. Not being a New Yorker, I've only seem pictures of The Girl. Until it was mentioned during this contretemps, I had no idea that the statue was either placed by an investment firm or that it might be intended as advertising. Unless you know the origins, it's "just" another piece of art. Nice one, too.

Unless I'm mistaken, if the inmates were under 18 years old, this would be considered child abuse, or even child endangerment. If they're over 65, there's elder abuse. A competent DA from another county ought to look at this.

AFAICT, all of the discussions have falsely compared the last-mile service network providers (comcast, at&t, TWC, etc) with content providers (google, faceboek, etc). Problem is that they're completely different animals. If google wants to analyze my search history (or email), that's my price of using a free service. Since I -pay- for connectivity, the only value they can add is passing the bits off faster, and I don't see that happening. (Noted that there are last-mile providers, like sonic.net, whom explicitly don't look at your traffic.)

The discussions should really revolve around the difference between carrying the traffic and providing any end-point service for that traffic. AT&T wants to provide email? Sure, make it a separate service.

All I want in a last-mile provider is to move the bits from my premises to an interchange site then hand them off to whomever. That's it. I don't need their caching, email, or even DNS. Unfortunately, very few providers will sell you that.